Fri, 16 Aug 2013, 21:06 PMDavid Lowe is Victorious in Day 1 at The Mini-Million

Courtesy of John DiBartolomeo

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- For the past 17 years, the C.A.R.S. Protection Plus Million Dollar Drag Race has remained as the
highest paying drag race in the world regardless of the class of cars. Held in October in
Montgomery, Alabama, it has changed the life of the 17 past winners and will remain to do so long
into the future.

David Lowe celebrates Day 1 win.

For 2013, Folk Promotions, the promoter of the race, announced the addition of two Mini-Million
events. Jennifer Folk of Folk Promotions, said, "With its high entry fee, The C.A.R.S. Protection
Plus Million isn't for everyone, even though last year we had over 450 cars at the event. But the
Mini-Millions will give more people an opportunity to race for some big money."

The first event held in May was at Montgomery Motorsports Park and drew a good crowd of racers. The
second Mini-Million was contested at Piedmont Dragway in North Carolina and played to another
packed house.

The concept of the weekend starts with two $20,000 to win races followed by a third on Sunday. The
Mini-Million race itself is contested on Saturday. As has been the norm for most high dollar
bracket races these days, door cars run door cars and dragsters run dragsters until later rounds.

Thursday's Day 1race began under sunny and Chamber of Commerce weather. Down to eight cars for
round six of racing, found Anthony Bertozzi getting the best of Jason Rich. Stephen McCrory beat
Phil Pennington, while David Lowe got he bet of Travis Harvey. The remaining pair pittedBill Lewis
and Terry Fulk with Lewis moving on to the semifinals.

In the round of four, McCrory outlasted Bertozzi, while the lone door car of David Lowe outlasted
Lewis.

Appearing in his first high dollar final round, Lowe, who recorded a perfect run in the second
round, was not to be denied using a .010 reaction time coupled with a 6.342 on a 6.34 dial-in.
McCrory meanwhile was no slouch either as he recorded a .007 reaction time but took just a wee bit
too much finish line stripe and ran under his dial by .005.

Lowe said, "We just put this motor in the car and I guess it's working pretty good."

Worried that he was the fighting the fight against dragsters, he said, "Door cars or dragsters,
it's just about running the number.